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Energy Challenge #6

Challenge Instructions

Speak up! Add your voice to the conversation about an energy issue you care about.

Vermont's law to ban school bus idling started with 8th graders sending postcards about it to their legislators.

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Why?

Even at the state's highest levels of setting policy, the people who make the laws and write the rules work for us! Businesses care about how their customers feel. Non-profits need support to do their jobs well. Whether we're making calls, sending postcards, writing letters to the editor, posting on Front Porch Forum, or just chatting with friends and neighbors over coffee, our voices, opinions, and perspectives matter!

How?

We have a lot of great tools in the works to help Vermont create a clean energy future. Check the Resources to find out what they are, and who's working on them.

Pick one of these tools to learn about and understand why it's important.

To complete this challenge, take what you know and add your voice to the public conversation. Check the Resources for tips about ways to express yourself.

Alternative

Don't feel like you know enough yet? Too shy to add your voice?

If you feel like you don't understand one of these issues well enough to talk about it, call, write, or meet with an expert from one of the organizations listed in Resources. Share their answer as your response to this challenge.

If you're too shy to share your opinion by yourself, see if a friend or family member will do it with you! Tell us what happens!

Challenge Complete

Speak up! Add your voice to the conversation about an energy issue you care about.

Ladies and Gentlemen. I am busting my backside to stop mor efossil fuel infrastructure from being built! The proposed Pilgrim Pipeline would go within 1/2 mile of my house. Along the way, it would threaten water supplies, wetlands, and cticial habitats for endangered species.

I have created and am updating the Stop the Pilgrim Pipeline Facebook page. I encourage people to contact our legislators to stop the pipeline. I keep other citizens informed about the status of the pipline proposal.

Oh, yes! I am making myself hear and helping others learn how to be heard!